Sentences with phrase «former leaders led»

Local victims of bombings by the terror group FALN watched in disgust Sunday as one of the murderous organization's former leaders led Manhattan's Puerto Rican Day Parade — riding out in front as the guest of honor with his fist thrust defiantly in the air.

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He became a prominent national leader for African Americans and a leading voice for former slaves and their descendants.

Meanwhile, GOP leader Donald Trump has seen his lead in Wisconsin evaporate, giving way to Ted Cruz, as Trump has clashed with Republican leaders in the state such as former presidential candidate Gov. Scott Walker and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (a Wisconsin congressman).

According to Bloomberg News, he will lead the search for a new CEO along with a group of directors that includes the former Dollar General and VF Corp CEOs, Rick Dreiling and Eric Wiseman respectively, two of the most respected and successful retail leaders of the last few years.

Before I started, the leader of the unit I was speaking to, retired Vice Admiral of the U.S. Navy and former Navy flyer Willie Moore, told the room full of mostly men they needed to love the people they were responsible for leading.

«It's fair to say that the policy and character of my government would be, or the government which I lead, would be very different to that of President Trump,» said Varadkar, 38, who was elected prime minister by the ruling Fine Gael party in June after former leader Enda Kenny stepped down.

The former federal minister is the perceived frontrunner to lead this new party fusing Alberta's Wildrose and Tory oppositions, but no matter which candidate succeeds, UCP will have a leader prone to jousting outside the provincial lines.

It's former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, characterized by Waymo's attorneys as a rapacious executive whose win - at - all - costs attitude and frustration with his company's self - driving efforts led him to conspire with Levandowski to steal the «sauce» that catapulted Alphabet's self - driving development to be the leader of the pack.

Edith Nawakwi, a former finance minister in Zambia and now leader of an opposition party, said large infrastructure projects were often wasted opportunities that failed to lead to economic development.

Former Social Credit Party leader Randy Thorsteinson, who led the party to win 6.8 percent of the vote in the 1997 election and later formed the Alberta Alliance Party (now known as the Wildrose Party) recently became the leader of the newly formed Reform Party of Alberta.

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The leader of 1.2 billion Catholics around the globe will leave his seat at the ornate Apostolic Palace and retire to a former gardener's house at the Vatican to lead a life of prayer, likely removed entirely from public life.

Mahaney resigned from The Gospel Coalition (TGC) last weekend in the wake of the criminal conviction of a former youth leader who abused three boys at SGM's flagship, Covenant Life Church (CLC), while Mahaney was lead pastor.

In 2012 the lines between the sacred and the profane will get even more blurry: Scientists will religiously maintain their search for the elusive God particle (they won't find it); evangelical sports superhero and Denver Bronco quarterback Tim Tebow will continue to be both an inspiration to the faithful and an object of scorn to skeptics (he will be watching, not playing in, the Super Bowl); at least one well - known religious leader or leading religious politician will be brought down by a sex scandal (let's hope all our leaders have learned a lesson from former Rep. Anthony Weiner and stay away from sexting); and the «nones» - those who don't identify with one religion - will grow even more numerous and find religious meanings in unexpected places (what TV show will become this season's «Lost»?)

Efforts intended to reverse sexual orientation through prayer and counseling, once popular within evangelicalism, have proven not only ineffective, but destructive, leading to multiple apologies from former leaders of those movements.

Former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce leads a growing list of leaders repudiating their opposition to the banking inquiry.

Arsenal have never replaced Patrick Vieira adequately, they say, and particularly the way he led his teammates, but the man himself has added his voice to the debate, as reported by The Mirror, and it will probably surprise you to hear our former captain claim that Arsenal do have plenty of leaders in the dressing room.

The conference will unite industry experts, leading scientists, neurologists and international business leaders with current and former professional athletes in effort to create consensus on the path forward for scientific research and commercial development.

Others reported to be interested in leading the party after Mr Mahama's reign include former Ministers of Youth and Sports, Edwin Nii Lante Vanderpuije; Gender, Children and Social Protection, Nana Oye Lithur; former Brong Ahafo Minister, Eric Opoku; former Central Regional Minister; Kwaku Rickett Hagan; former Minister of State at the presidency, Rashid Pelpuo; and former majority leader and now 2nd deputy Speaker of Parliament; Alban Kingsford Sumane Bagbin.

Farron's staunch defence of the Lib Dem record and his fullsome praise of Clegg could lead one to conclude that perhaps the party leader and the former president are best mates after all.

The commission is led by the ex-Nato chief Lord Robertson and the former Lib Dem leader Lord Ashdown.

A special election being held next could add Chris McGrath, but he is locked in a tight race with Democratic Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky for the district formerly led by disgraced former Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

The Former President is leading a 15 - member Commonwealth Observer Group in Kenya for its elections today August 8, 2017 but the NPP leader believes he conspired with General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Johnson Asideu Nketia to deport the former National Chairman of thFormer President is leading a 15 - member Commonwealth Observer Group in Kenya for its elections today August 8, 2017 but the NPP leader believes he conspired with General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Johnson Asideu Nketia to deport the former National Chairman of thformer National Chairman of the NPP.

Comedian Jimmy Cricket led the entertainment, and there were video messages from Jim Bowen, House of Commons Speaker Michael Martin, party leader Nick Clegg, former leader Paddy Ashdown and more.

An evening optimistically billed as «the greatest Labour fundraising event ever» will see former leader Ed Miliband leading a karaoke sing - a-long next month.

The Moreland probes helped lead to the corruption convictions of both of the legislative leaders who were in power in 2013, and the conviction of the governor's former closest aide, Joe Percoco, on bribery charges.

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First, there were years of late budgets, and more recently, corruption scandals that led to the two former legislative leaders facing prison time.

Five years ago when the former Tory leader and Prime Minister David Cameron had promised an In / Out referendum it seemed unlikely that Britain's membership of the EU was in serious danger but a whole series of events gradually led to this enormous day in Britain's history.

His law firm bonanza was simultaneously deplored and celebrated — with former Republican Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno telling a prospective client that he was inspired by his counterpart's trial lawyer paychecks to jumpstart his own consulting firm, leading to his own indictment.

Cuomo had proposed a number of changes in January to react to a wave of corruption that led to the convictions of the two former leader of the legislature on felony corruption charges.

Among those who were being mentioned as a possible replacement was former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who brought corruption charges that led to the convictions of two former majority party legislative leaders, as well as Cuomo's former closest aide, before Bharara was fired by President Donald Trump.

Two weeks ago, the Campaign for Labour Democracy's AGM passed a motion calling for Lutfur Rahman, the Mayor of Tower Hamlets, to be readmitted to the party and for a full investigation into events since the disastrous 2010 selection process that led to this former Labour council leader standing as an independent and winning against an imposed Labour candidate — Helal Abbas.

As a harbinger of how an Internet presidency could take form, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle — who may be nominated as the next Health and Human Services secretary as early as next week — has embarked on a new format for leading the charge on new health care policies, online and off.

For the second month in a row, the Siena College poll reports that nearly 100 percent of those surveyed want something done about the corruption in Albany that's led to both former leaders of the legislature sentenced to prison and the U.S. attorney's investigation of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development programs.

That case involved campaign contributions and also led to the overturning of the corruption convictions of two former powers in New York State politics — Sheldon Silver, the longtime Democratic speaker of the State Assembly, and Dean Skelos, the former Republican majority leader of the State Senate.

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Recall that Million was once declared wanted by Lagos State former Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko, in December 2012, after he led a four - man gang of kidnappers to abduct former Majority Leader of Lagos State House of Assembly, Tofeeq Adeniji, in Lagos, and took him through the rivers to Delta State, where he demanded N30 million as ransom.

Speaking on the Nigerian economy and the orientation of the leaders and the led, the former governor said: «We need people who will see Nigeria as Nigeria.

Ukip was in crisis today as one of its leading MEPs and former deputy leader defected to the Conservatives.

In light of the corruption trials of two former legislative leaders taking place this week and New York State's D - minus grade in how it handles issues of integrity from a national comparison study, New York's leading good government groups today called upon the New York State legislature and governor to complete the job of reforming our laws governing public ethics.

Farage, the former Ukip leader who is in temporary charge again after Diane James quit soon after taking the job, has promised to lead a 100,000 - strong march in central London on the day of the supreme court hearing next month.

Peter Robinson, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party and First Minister of Northern Ireland, has stated during a TV interview that it was the backlash against a rally held in memory to two IRA terrorists that led to his party withdrawing its support from plans to build a peace centre in what used to be HM Prison Maze, on the site of the former Long Kesh Detention Centre.

Meanwhile, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, whose efforts have led to convictions for the likes of former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, made clear that he will continue looking for possible corruption in Albany and the city.

It has been the focus of several major corruption scandals, including two that led to jail time for both former legislative leaders, and nine Cuomo associates, including a former top aide and the former architect of his upstate economic development programs, are facing multiple charges, including bribery and bid - rigging.

The proposals come after a corruption wave at the Capitol that's led to prison sentences for both former legislative leaders, jail time for a former state comptroller and federal charges, including bribery and bid - rigging, against nine Cuomo associates.

«Recently, some religious leaders led by former Head of State, Gen. Abdusalami Abubakar, were in Southern Kaduna to mediate between the herdsmen and farmers.

A delegation of religious leaders from DR Congo led by the Electoral Commissioner of DR Congo, Nangaa Yobeluo Corneille have paid a courtesy call on former President John Dramani Mahama.

Yet the initial surge of «Buffalo Billion» investment was clouded last year by federal indictments in a «pay - to - play» investigation led by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, whose office had registered high - profile corruption convictions against former state Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver and former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

A group loyal to Ragusa fought with another group led by Bart Haggerty, who contended former City Councilman Tom Ognibene was the legitimate Queens GOP leader.